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Donate to Partners in Health. The organization was founded by Ophelia Dahl, Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Todd McCormack, and Tom White with the mission to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care.

Support international health organizations like IntraHealth, who help train and improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Help train the next generation of health workers. The University of Global Health Equality began as an aspiration of Partners in Health and now has the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare professionals.

Advocate for policy initiatives that reflect the most pressing issues in the fight to address poverty. Join groups like Results and push for specific policies and legislation to address poverty by equipping people to engage in grassroots advocacy.

“The Ebola outbreak, which is the largest in history that we know about, is merely a reflection of the public health crisis in Africa, and it’s about the lack of staff, stuff and systems that could protect populations, particularly those living in poverty, from outbreaks like this or other public health threats,”

Rwanda’s Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Might Learn

Over the last decade in Rwanda, deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria dropped by 80 percent, maternal mortality dropped by 60 percent, life expectancy doubled — all at an average health care cost of $55 per person per year.